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Monthly Archives: February 2012

2/3…TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT….By Jim Stiles * Overpopulation—the Windex Solution * DISSENT–The Greatest form of Loyalty * THE 99% (We don’t like each other very much) * The French Toilet Jobs Solution * Moab U…Hurrah for Education. But BAD…

Recently a quotation from George Clooney made the rounds on facebook. Every Democrat worth his liberal-leaning salt was running this admonition from the popular actor. In part he said: “I’m disillusioned with the people who are disillusioned with Obama, quite…

If you’re like me, you know the whole “gay rights” question isn’t really a question: it’s an eventuality. According to an ABC poll from 2011, 68% of Americans under the age of 30 support gay marriage rights. More strikingly, 65%…

BELLA! Andy and Marcee Nettell have been fostering this beautiful pooch, Bella, while she waits for a permanent home. If you can’t resist those beautiful, soulful brown eyes, contact the Moab Valley Humane Society immediately. GOOD NEWS! AT PRESS TIME…

Aziz Rain falls softly from a slate grey sky, and drips slowly from the drooping tips of the palm leaves that dominate the view from my hotel window here in Rabat. Birds sing unseen, sheltering from the rain, and people…

Since the Occupy Movement began last September, I’ve watched with bated breath. I love a good revolution and have spent most of my adult life hoping to see one, but in this day and age, especially here in the…

“I’d hoped that my intuitions were wrong, but they weren’t.” – Jim Stiles, 2007 It’s late Monday morning at Starbucks, on the day after New Year’s. The snow outside is beginning to whip up; several inches are forecast for later…

Desi and I tried to picture the country in 50 years, as a kind of parlor game. “Oh! Mushroom cloud! It’s going to be a disaster!” he said. “It’s so overwhelming there’s nothing in particular to be worried…

The world’s human population passed seven billion souls last October with little fanfare. There were a few ripples of concern but, incredibly, others thought it was a moment for celebration. You’d think we’d won a prize for procreation or something.…

I was going to write about population, water and the Southwest, largely where I’m still headed. But then came headlines about the Occupy Movement; an essay on the Cassandra dilemma, and my ongoing frustration that a nation founded on…